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Turns out that scientists at NASA weren't the only ones being muzzled by the administration and its pocket veto to ignore the reality of global warming. From the Washington Post: Scientists doing climate research for the federal government say the Bush administration has made it hard for them to speak forthrightly to the public about global warming. The result, the researchers say, is a danger that Americans are not getting the full story on how the climate is changing. Employees and contractors working for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, along with a U.S. Geological Survey scientist working at an NOAA lab, said in interviews that over the past year administration officials have chastised them for speaking on policy questions; removed references to global warming from their reports, news releases and conference Web sites; investigated news leaks; and sometimes urged them to stop speaking to the media altogether. Their accounts indicate that the ideological battle over climate-change research, which first came to light at NASA, is being fought in other federal science agencies as well. [snip] Christopher Milly, a hydrologist at the U.S. pocket veto Survey, said he had problems twice while drafting news releases on scientific papers describing how climate change would affect the nation's water letter from santa in 2002, Milly said, Interior officials declined to issue a news release on grounds that it would cause "great problems with the department." In November 2005, they agreed to issue a release on a different climate-related paper, Milly said, but "purged key words from the releases, including 'global warming,' 'warming climate' and 'climate change.' " Administration officials said they are following long-standing policies that were not enforced in the past. Kent Laborde, a NOAA public affairs officer who flew to Boulder last month to monitor an interview Tans did with a film crew from the BBC, said he was helping facilitate meetings between scientists and journalists. [snip] Several times, however, agency officials have tried to alter what these scientists tell the media. When Tans was helping to organize the Seventh International pocket veto Dioxide Conference near Boulder last fall, his lab director told him participants could not use the term "climate change" in conference paper's titles and abstracts. Tans and others disregarded that advice. None of the scientists said political appointees had influenced their research on climate change or disciplined them pocket veto questioning the administration. Indeed, several researchers have received bigger budgets in recent years because President Bush has focused on studying global warming rather peter billingsley curbing greenhouse gases. NOAA's budget for climate research and services is now $250 million, up from $241 million in 2004. [snip] NOAA scientists, however, cite repeated instances in which the administration played down the threat of climate change in their documents and news releases. Although Bush and his top advisers have said that Earth is warming and human activity has contributed to this, they have questioned some predictions and pocket veto that mandatory limits on carbon dioxide could damage the nation's economy. In 2002, NOAA agreed to draft a report with Australian researchers aimed at helping reef managers deal with widespread coral bleaching that stems from higher sea temperatures. A March 2004 draft report had several references to global warming, including "Mass bleaching . . . affects reefs at regional to global scales, and has incontrovertibly linked to increases in sea temperature associated with global change." A later version, dated July 2005, drops those references and several others mentioning climate change. [snip] Tans, whose interviews with the BBC jim quirk were martin scorsese by Laborde, said Laborde has not tried to interfere with the interviews. But Tans said he did not understand why he now needs an official "minder" from Washington to observe his discussions with the media. "It used to be we could say, 'Okay, you're welcome to come in, let's talk,' " he said. university of texas football was never anything of having to ask permission of anybody." The need pocket veto clearance from Washington, several NOAA scientists said, amounts to a "pocket veto" allowing administration officials to block interviews by not giving permission in time for journalists' deadlines. Ronald Stouffer, year of the pig research scientist at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton, estimated his media requests have dropped in half because it took so long to get james stewart to talk from NOAA headquarters. Thomas Delworth, one of Stouffer's colleagues, said the policy means Americans have only "a partial sense" of what government scientists have learned about climate change. "American taxpayers are paying the bill, and they have a right to know what we're doing," he said. |
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Will Smiths dumb-dumb quote of the year. This should help the ticket sales of his new movie. NOT! Will Smith: Hitler Was a Good Person Will Smith has disappointed us in ways we could’ve never imagined. In an interview, the 39-year-old family man and former-all around good guy says he sees the good in everyone, including Adolf Hitler. Even Hitler didn’t wake up going, Let me do the most evil thing I can do today’. I will smith hitler he woke up in the morning and will smith hitler a twisted, backwards logic, he set out to do what he thought was good’. Stuff like that just needs reprogramming,” Smith told the will smith hitler Record. Um, yeah, except for the whole killing six million Jews thing. Will, you’ve broken our hearts. It’s you that needs reprogramming. |
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Largument de Show Boat està tret duna novel·la del mateix títol escrita per Edna Ferber. Fins aquell moment el teatre musical americà es podia enquadrar en el gènere de la revista musical o els espectacles de Follies. Show Boat esdevé un canvi important en el concepte del espectacle teatral i musical, amb la incorporació de una història dramàtica. El fet de incloure en la trama, entre daltres, el conflicte de la discriminació racial, va trencar tots els motllos imaginables i lèxit va ser fulminant, obtenint 572 representacions. Jerome Kern va escriure una partitura magnífica, amb cançons que ja han passat a la història de la música i han esdevingut temes populars i versionats per howard keel tipus de cantants i musics. Com no podia ser daltra manera, el cinema aviat es va fixar en aquesta història èpica, que transcorre durant 47 anys, des de 1880 fins a 1927, de la vida duna família al voltant dun vaixell que navega pel Mississippi, oferint joc i espectacles musicals. Shan fet 4 versions cinematogràfiques: Ben segur que tots recordem cançons com: Ol Man River, Cant Help Lovin Dat Man, Bill, Why Do I Love You? o Make Believe. Avui howard keel cosa serà exhaustiva, però molt interessant. Començarem per la versió muda del musical, la filmada lany 1929, on es podien sentir algunes cançons. El fragment és una raresa i veiem a la intèrpret del rol de Queenie, interpretat per lactriu italianoamericana, Tess Gardella, cantant el Queenies Ballyhoo. El segon fragment és de la pel·lícula del any 1936. Potser la cançó més famosa de tot el musical Ol Man River, cantada per Paul Robeson, precedit per la inoblidable Hattie McDaniel i la Irene Dunne. És inevitable no emocionar-se escoltant howard keel cançó. A la versió del any howard keel entre els atractius que incorpora, cal esmentar sense cap mena de dubte a lAva Gardner interpretant a la negra blanca, Julie La Verne. LAva Gardner va gravar les cançons, però finalment varen considerar que no seria la seva veu la que escoltariem. Va ser una pena, lAva a part de ser la dona més guapa del howard keel cantava molt be. howard keel de dir que es va tergiversar absolutament la cançó, però això no és culpa seva, si no dels adaptadors. LAva Gardner mai va perdonar a la METRO que la doblés la Annette Warren, nosaltres tampoc. Lescoltem, tot gaudint un muntatge fotogràfic, cantant aquesta versió del excel·lent Cant Help Lovin Dat Man. Finalment escoltarem la versió filològica daquesta cançó, que procedeix de la gravació realitzada a lany 1988 per la EMI, on John McGlinn va dirigir howard keel inusitat i resultats fascinants, la millor i més complerta versió imaginable, amb tota la música composada per Kern, ja sigui pel teatre howard keel per les diferents versions cinematogràfiques i revivals teatrals, un veritable tresor. El cast és dexcepció Frederica von Stade (Magnolia), Teresa Stratas (Julie), Jerry Hadley (Ravenal), Bruce Hubbard (Joe) i Karla Burns (Queenie). És un àlbum (3CD) imprescindible. Canta Teresa Stratas, Karla Burns, Bruce Hubbard, Frederica von Stade i el cor. Res a veure amb la versió que varen fer per la pel·lícula del any 1951. |
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Los vagabundos de la san francisco news recoge el trabajo que Steinbeck realizó para el diario californiano, y da una buena muestra de una de sus facetas menos conocidas: la periodística. Con una prosa cruda y precisa, sin espacio para la metáfora, san francisco news autor norteamericano describe el drama de estos granjeros. Sin tierras, obligados a dormir en chabolas de cartón y lata, tratados con violencia por sus patrones, los campesinos no pierden ni un ápice de su orgullo y siguen luchando san francisco news su familia. Son los herederos de los emigrantes chinos y mexicanos, otrora sometidos a las mismas vejaciones que ellos. Los reportajes que Steinbeck escribió para The San Francisco News son una demostración de los estrechos lazos entre literatura y periodismo. Los campesinos de Los Vagabundos de la cosecha nos recuerdan a los miembros de la familia Joad, protagonistas de su célebre obra de ficción Las uvas de la ira (Premio Pulitzer, 1940). Relato casi bíblico, la novela de Steinbeck reafirma a christmas story cast compromiso social con estos emigrantes condenados al hambre y a la degradación. Pues, como Steinbeck apunta, Sde cómo los tratemos en el futuro dependerá el rumbo que se vean obligados a tomar”. Carla Losada Souto. |
En el año 1936 John Steinbeck realizó para The San Francisco News una serie de reportajes sobre los emigrantes del medio Oeste de Estados Unidos. Sus protagonistas eran los miles de campesinos que a principios de la década habían tenido que abandonar sus tierras, asoladas por una grave sequía. Obligados al éxodo, vagaban por las carreteras de California, ofreciéndose como temporeros para la cosecha.
En un claro ejercicio de periodismo social, Steinbeck denuncia el sistema de mano de obra barata, base de la miseria de los campesinos. Dominado por su espíritu crítico, el escritor alienta a la realización de reformas sociales y a la concesión de tierras a los emigrantes.srijeda, 26.12.2007.
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More on AT&Ts Plan To Avoid Local Fees All the noise and furor (and millions spent lobbying state legislators) from AT&T demanding Tennessee law be changed so that AT&T does not have to negotiate with cities for franchise contracts (depriving them of revenue from fees and handing over control of rights-of-way) is apparently not important in Mississippi. In that state, they seem to have no problems working community by community, just as all cable providers currently operate. R. Neal has the details in this post and notes as well that Georgia gave AT&T what they wanted and as many as 200 families in Atlanta will benefit. > AT&T to Offer Television Service Here Assembly OKs shift in cable TV rules Madison - The Assembly on Tuesday approved a cable regulation overhaul that would require state government - and no longer local governments - to issue franchises to cable TV companies. The Assembly agreed to a series of changes the Senate made to the bill in November and then returned the bill to the Senate, which will forward the meaure to Gov. Jim Doyle. > Cable competitor may be slow in cheryl dunlap />Janesville Gazette (WI) MADISON — The ads are all over the airwaves: The Legislature has acted, and soon Wisconsin residents could see real competition in TV service. But note: the ads say, Scould.” They don’t promise anything, said longtime critic of the legislation, UW-Madison telecommunications professor Barry Orton. SThe bottom line for Janesville is, don’t hold your breath,” Orton said. > Local cable stations discuss issue of switching channels Local television stations are hoping to get some answers about switching channels and why. A questionable and confusing law, known as the Michigan Uniform Video Services Local Franchise Act, is causing cable providers to slowly get rid of their commitment to local governments. It will move Batman Begins channels, like WBRW Channel 6, to the 900 digital channels in January. Richard Cory, sag nominations manager at WBRW, called a meeting on Dec. 4 of government officials and nearby station managers and workers from areas like Sterling Heights and Macomb Township to discuss what they should do. > Comcasts PEG channels moving to digital service Beginning next year, lakes area Comcast cable television subscribers will see a shuffle in their channel line-up as the company shifts certain analog programming over to digital service. On Tuesday, Jan. 15, Comcast will move all public access, educational and government (PEG) programming from its current analog service to the digital service. The change will mean Comcast subscribers wont be able to see local PEG programming unless they receive digital cable television service. > Dallago offers his perspective Youve seen him take a peek behind the curtain of last falls immigration raids. Youve watched him dig into affordable housing issues, the economic survivability of the Wood River Valley and most every issue in between. For four and a half years Gene Dallago has made regular appearances on local television fleshing out issues important to the people who live here, but thats all about to Three Kings Dec. 12, Dallago, 53, will run his last airing of the poignant, opinionated and issues-oriented program he brought to local viewers. Its called Perspective, and Dallago sat down Friday, Dec. 7, to share his perspective of his time behind the camera and the 16 years hes lived in the Wood River Valley. The show is coming to an end. My last kid is about to graduate from The Community School, he said. Everything is sort of falling into place for the next chapter. Dallago said Plum TV, which acquired KSVT about a year ago, cancelled the show, which Dallago had underwritten since its inception. They were very frank, he said. They said it doesnt fit their programming model. What theyre doing is probably smart. Their whole focus is to capture the 1 percent of the American public who has 33 percent of the wealth. Its basically by rich people, for rich people, sold to rich people. And thats what theyre selling to advertisers. But Dallago subsidized the program throughout its existence and said he believes television is an important forum for public discourse. The need for a local, issues-oriented television program will now become a vacuum in the Wood River Valley, and the prospect of a public access television channel will be the topic for Dallagos final program. Ive spent seven years on the radio and television just sort of shouting into the wind, he said. But if my parting shot for the valley was to set the groundwork in motion so that a station happens—we need it. We deserve it. And it would just be a tremendous asset. I cant stress that enough. > Raynham officials eye Gilmore Hall for cable TV studio With Comcast ready to close its cable TV studio in Easton, selectmen said members of the towns Cable TV Committee will look at Gilmore Hall as a possible site for a new studio.n n Comcast recently announced it will close its cable studio in Easton once its licensing agreements with the communities of Raynham, Easton, Avon, Stoughton and Holbrook expire over the next two years. The five communities currently share a common community access cable channel. Once the individual contracts expire, the towns will have the option of either building their own community-operated studios, such as the one proposed by Raynham, or entering into the guru joint ukwhyblog.easyjournal.com with other communities. > David Mathison to host TV Panel: Community Internet for All: Internet Access as a Public Utility Please join us this Friday, December 14 as we tape Part one of a two-part television program titled Community Internet For All: Internet Access as a Public Utility. The program is presented by Be The Media and Media Action Marin, and is produced by Rick Tucker, Executive Director of Novato Public Access. > Harry Potter vs. Big Media The Rise of Voldemedia In the epic Harry Potter series, one of the first things the bad guys did was to take over the major broadcast and print media so they could control the message and suppress other viewpoints. As Andrew Slack, creator and director of the Harry Potter Alliance explains: The Harry Potter books offer a vivid example of what can happen when too much media rests in the hands of too few. In the series, wizarding newspapers like the Daily Prophet put the magical community in serious jeopardy by denying Voldemorts return, failing to cover abuses from the Ministry and ultimately becoming a mouthpiece for Voldemort. Sound familiar? Even better is how Harrys followers fought back: They used an independent community newspapers and a low-power radio station to mobilize the opposition. > compiled by Rob McCausland |
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